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Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Commercial Law : From 10/01/02 To 07/01/03

Number of summaries found: 9
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Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Consumer Protection Law, Per Curiam
Title: NIKE, INC. v. KASKY
Date: 06/26/03
Case Number: 02-575
Summary: The court's writ of certiorari is dismissed as being improvidently granted, and the case is sent back to California's state courts for further adjudication.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Agriculture, Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Food & Beverages
Title: HILLSIDE DAIRY INC. v. LYONS
Date: 06/09/03
Case Number: 01-950
Summary: California's milk pricing and pooling regulations are not exempted from Commerce Clause scrutiny by the Federal Agriculture and Reform Act of 1996. Absence of an express statement identifying out-of-state residency or citizenship as a basis for disparate treatment is not a sufficient basis for rejecting Privileges and Immunities Clause claims.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Public Utilities
Title: ENTERGY LOUISIANA, INC. v. LOUISIANA PUB. SERV. COMM'N
Date: 06/02/03
Case Number: 02-299
Summary: A Louisiana Public Service Commission order impermissibly "traps" costs that have been allocated in a FERC tariff, thus the order is subject to federal pre-emption.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Contracts, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration
Title: CITIZENS BANK v. ALAFABCO, INC.
Date: 06/02/03
Case Number: 02-1295
Summary: A debt-restructuring agreement had a sufficient nexus with interstate commerce to make an arbitration provision in that agreement enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, Government Contracts
Title: NAT'L PARK HOSPITALITY ASS'N v. DEP'T OF THE INTERIOR
Date: 05/27/03
Case Number: 02-196
Summary: A National Park Service regulation, purporting to render the Contract Disputes Act of 1978 inapplicable to contracts entered into by concessioners doing business in national parks, is a general policy statement. A challenge to that regulation is not yet ripe for judicial resolution, for lack of a "hardship" showing.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government Benefits, Remedies
Title: PHARM. RESEARCH & MFRS. OF AM. v. WALSH
Date: 05/19/03
Case Number: 01-188
Summary: A preliminary injunction preventing implementation of a state program reducing prescription drug prices for state residents was improper, where an association of non-resident drug manufacturers could not show probability of success on Commerce Clause claims.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Bankruptcy Law, Commercial Law, Communications Law, Copyright, Cyberspace Law, Intellectual Property
Title: FED. COMMUNICATIONS COMM'N v. NEXTWAVE PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
Date: 01/27/03
Case Number: 01-653/657
Summary: Bankruptcy Code section 525 prohibits the FCC from removing licenses held by a debtor in bankruptcy upon the debtor's failure to make timely payments owed to the FCC for purchase of the licenses.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Injury and Tort Law, Transportation
Title: PIERCE COUNTY v. GUILLEN
Date: 01/14/03
Case Number: 01-1229
Summary: An evidentiary privilege, 23 U.S.C. section 409, which protects information related to certain federal highway safety programs from discovery or admission in certain federal and state trials, is aimed at improving safety in channels of commerce and is a proper exercise of Congress's Commerce Clause authority.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Commercial Law, Transportation
Title: YELLOW TRANSP., INC. v. MICHIGAN
Date: 11/05/02
Case Number: 01-270
Summary: The Interstate Commerce Commission's interpretation of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act's fee-cap provision is consistent with the language of that statute and reasonably resolves ambiguity therein, thus that interpretation must receive deference under Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837.

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